Removing Semantic Highlighting

[KamasamaK]

Given this, should we remove or deprecate semantic highlights as semantic tokens replace it?

Originally posted by @ericdallo in #446 (comment)

This question was never addressed, so I'm creating a separate issue for it. Now that Semantic Tokens are officially in the LSP 3.16 proposal and implemented in LSP4J, the Semantic Highlighting operations should be removed or deprecated. What is the view on beta/experimental features? Should they just be removed or should they be deprecated first even though they were never finalized?

[spoenemann]

The @Beta annotation says something like "use at your own risk, this might change or be removed". Nonetheless it would make sense to add @Deprecated to the affected parts of the API before our 0.10.0 release and remove them after the release.

[KamasamaK]

I've added @Deprecated to the Semantic Highlighting API. I will remove that API some time after 0.10.0 release.

[KamasamaK]

@kittaakos As the one who created the semantic highlighting API, how do you feel about the timeline of its removal?

[kittaakos]

@KamasamaK, thank you for keeping an eye on this. 👍 Please, feel free to remove the unused APIs. I do not have any obejctions.